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I’ve been fortunate to spend most of my career at the Library of Congress, and lucky to have discovered many treasures there over the years. But this recording resonated more than any other (so far). Here is a short documentary made by Kim Fields for the release of the Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall tapes. The tapes were discovered at LC in 2005 and subsequently released on CD by Blue Note and on vinyl by Mosaic.